What is recorded here

Barrow is a barrow, unclassified in Carnaweeleen, County Sligo, Ireland. The large earthen mound sits on an upland terrace below Kesh Corann Hill, though quarrying removed its centre and left a three-metre rim around a hollow pit. A slight depression nearby may mark a silted-up fosse, while a circular enclosure and rath remain close by.

In pasture, on an upland terrace on the lower NE-facing slopes of Kesh Corann Hill. A large mound (20m N-S; 16m E-W), the centre of which has been quarried leaving a rim (H 3m) around a central irregular hollow (diam. 10m). A break at E gives access to the grassed-over quarry pit. The mound appears to be primarily earthen in composition but incorporates some stone. A slight depression NE-SE may indicate a silted-up fosse (Wth 4m). At E, a low berm-like feature between the fosse and the mound may be due to the disturbance of the mound as it is located in the area of the access gap into the quarry pit. A field boundary skirts the base of the mound at W. A circular enclosure (SL040-003002-) lies 2m to N and a rath (SL040-004----) c. 40m to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Attached images: SL040-003001-_01.JPG Barrow (at R) viewed from W, with enclosure (SL040-003002-) beside it (at L) Date of upload: 18 January 2008

A Bronze Age barrow, likely a bell barrow, partially destroyed by central quarrying; its location on an upland terrace suggests ritual or territorial significance common to prehistoric funerary monuments in the region.

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